Leon Hale

WINEDALE — Hello again from the old country place in Washington County, where the morning air is sweet and cool, and I’m finally back on the front porch. The heat has been keeping me inside, under the ceiling fan, but the air out here just now is soft and pleasant. By the middle of the […]
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Back in the middle of August everybody in our household, including the dog, came down with a case of the droops, I suppose due to the heat and the drought. We had a discussion and decided that we needed to go see a mountain or two. We hadn’t seen a mountain in three years. Every […]
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All the movie-goers we know kept singing praise about the Julie & Julia film that’s showing around town, so finally my partner and I went to see it. And we did think it was a fine show. After we got home my partner gave me a Julia Child lecture. How her book Mastering the Art […]
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Here is a letter from a fellow who wants to know if I believe in ghosts. (I would be glad to believe in them if I ever see one, which I have not.) He then told me about the strange death of his wife. She died while playing the piano. Had a heart attack and […]
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When I go around and about and meet people they look at my wrinkles and ask how long I’ve been writing the column. I say 60 years, or somewhere around there, and then they say, “My, my” or “Goodness gracious” or “That’s a long time.” But last week when a fellow asked me the how-long […]
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A couple of weeks ago I bought a Texas road map at a convenience store and it cost $7.50. There was a time when I wouldn’t pay 50 cents for a road map because the oil companies were giving them away at service stations. I wore out a lot of maps in my traveling days. […]
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WINEDALE — Hello again from the old country house in Washington County, where the days are still way too hot. But I have news. Let the record show that one morning during the third week of August when I was standing on the porch at 11 o’clock, I felt fall. That is, I felt a […]
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Tuesday morning I woke up with a stiff knee, and could hardly walk. Doctored it and hobbled around for a while. Finally it quit hurting and started acting like a civilized knee again. Last Saturday it was my right foot that was hurting. Who knows why? It just decided to become a nuisance and throb. […]
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